Soup dumplings and Lanterns are not the same thing.

1, the practice is different

Yuanxiao is mainly rolled out by manpower or machine, rocking back and forth, so that the filling in the rolling process slowly rolled on a thick layer of glutinous rice coat. The process of making soup dumplings is like wrapping dumplings, first the glutinous rice flour and good after waking up, making the filling, in order to fill the filling of the quicksand taste, will be added to the filling of the additional amount of water then take a piece of glutinous rice dough, kneaded into a pie crust, wrapped into the filling, kneaded into a ball.

2, different fillings

The dumplings can be filled with salt or sweet, meat or vegetarian, in addition to the most traditional black sesame, five kernel, bean paste, hawthorn filling, and a lot of coarse grains, fruits, flowers flavored, as well as the heartbreaking roasted pork with dried plums, mushrooms and fresh meat filling.

3, different textures

Made into a snack glutinous rice flour surface layer is very thin, the surface is dry, the pot to cook, the surface powder due to the absorption of water caused by the soup becomes mushy. And after cooking the dumplings skin smooth and shiny, so the soup is light, the taste is delicate and soft. Due to the different production processes, the texture of the snacks to eat than the soup dumplings more rough, soft and chewy, more satiating than the soup dumplings.